Posted on 09/13/2008 1:20:56 PM PDT by freespirited
Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates who knew him in high school and college.
* Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as “cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others.”
* Paul Carpenter Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a “a good bodysurfer”, “an athletic guy”, and “superbright”.
* Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York’s Lehman College.
* Jon K. Mitchell a friend from Occidental who now plays bass for the country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
* Imad Husain a Pakistani and Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental. Husain is now a Boston banker.
* Mohammed Hasan Chandoo a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. He is a now a self-employed financial consultant living in Armonk, New York.
* Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York City.
* Vinai Thummalapally an Obama college roommate in the summer of 1980. Thummalapally is from Hyderabad, India. Obama visited Hyderabad, India and Karachi, Pakistan during a three week period with Wahid Hamid after his graduation from Occidental. [1] He is president of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* Sohale Siddiqi is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal having over stay his tourist visa. [2] Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited Chandoo and Hamid at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.
* Andrew Roth knew Obama at Occidental College and in New York City. Roth said that back then “The thought...never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president.”
* Cassandra Butts a friend from law school who now works at the Center for American Progress. Of Obama she said, “People see in him what they want to see.”
* Michael Froman a friend from law school and now an executive at Citigroup.
* Laurence Tribe a professor at Harvard who said Obama was one of his two best students. “He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information.” [3]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081836/posts
And when the organization which ISSUES security clearances is infiltrated by hard-core Leftists?
“He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information.” [3]
thesis - antithesis - synthesis
working from “the world as it is” toward “the world as it should be”
there’s no witch-hunt necessary....this guy is in plain sunlight!
Nam Survivor,
Thanks for your service to America and continued service through this forum!
Check this out and feel free to post it as a topic.
I was googeling Davis and the website —connectionjunction came up with these posts, assumed to be between Frank Marshall Davis’s son, named Mark, and some blogger. The blogger, Frank, does a great job of exposing the problem with their relationship from the point of worldview, however he does not delve into the question of fatherhood...................................I’ll have to return to the search, another blogger is comparing the facial structure of BHO to FMD and BHOSr and sees a stronger resemblence in the first two men.
** How ironic of this to occur when the Kos kids are insanely requesting Trig’s DNA. If there is truth here, Barry’s DNA could be the surprise of the century to all but Grandma Dunham!
4 Responses to “Dreams From Frank Marshall Davis”
Mark Kaleokualoha Davis Says:
August 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
As the son of Frank Marshall Davis, I am fighting the right-wing disinformation campaign that exaggerates my father’s radical influence over Barack Obama in Hawaii. Please read my blog at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha.
Frank Says:
August 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
We appreciate your service Mark, but that’s not the issue.
Your father, Frank Marshall Davis, is a Marxist. That’s a fact, and he had enough of an influence on Barack Hussein Obama that BHO wrote about him in his book, Dreams From My Father. Now we come to the pure simple fact that Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist as well. What are we to think? That BHO became a Marxist but your Marxist father’s influence had nothing to do with it? That’s a bit of a stretch.
BTW: I see you are flying Obama’s logo on your site. If I put a hammer and sickle on my site it would be reasonable for visitors to peg me as a communist. I would expect that. What I find troubling is people like Obama and your father who are Marxist but try to deny it.
The unverified cv on your site is impressive but I have to question what you have posted because it does not square one whit with the honor you bestow on your father and your association now with Obama.
Mark Kaleokualoha Davis Says:
August 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
If by “Marxist” you mean that he advocates replacing capitalism with communism, then you are dead wrong.
The focus of my site is not the actual qualifications of Barack Obama to become POTUS. It is the disinformation campaign that exaggerates my father’s radical influence on him. I have challenged Cliff Kincaid (and everyone else) to refute the “specific misrepresentations” I have identified on my blog at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Kaleokualoha/gGxdvX.
Frank Says:
August 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Let’s forget your red herrings about the purpose of your site and Cliff Kincaid. The subject is the ideology of Frank Marshall Davis and whether he had an influence on the formation of Barack Obama’s ideology.
I have never “joined” a capitalist organization per se yet everybody that knows me is aware that I’m a capitalist.
I have never joined a right-of-center political organization but everybody that has engaged me in political conversation and / or read my political writings know I am more conservative than liberal.
Your father was a communist. I don’t give a rat’s ass whether he ever joined the Communist Party or ever wrote one word about “overthrowing” the U.S. government or not, he spent his adult life writing and working to undermine capitalism and federalism and those are bedrock principles of American democracy. Ergo, he was for everything I despise which is the same system I see in Russia, Cuba, China and now Venezuela. It’s called Marxism or communism, pick one.
That brings us to the point that Obama is a communist as well. He has exposed his ideology and in his book he spells out how he got to where is is today, ideologically.
He’s been on the campaign trail for over a year and I have heard his speeches and read his writings. He’s communist to the core. What the hell do you think he means by “economic justice?” He favors a group of elitist running the country and distributing the wealth based on need; so did Stalin; so did your father.
As to whether your father influenced Obama or not: Obama brought it up. I think I’ll take his word over your hysterical, agenda-driven denials.
you’re wondering if BHO is really grandma Dunhams kid? I hadn’t even thought of THAT one!.....no thread for me, I hadn’t bothered with this much at all until I happened to click the link at the top of this thread yesterday, beyond reading bits and pieces here.
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No, that thought NEVER occurred to me and I’m confused as to why you would think that, given his appearance or what I wrote. You were toying with the idea that he was FMDs kid in post #11. And so I googled FMD Obama Father and apparently several other people suspect the same. I’m not sure I buy the theory regardless of the physical resmblence. FMD would have been pretty old and SAD would have been quite young.
He was his Communist Mentor and Father-figure, that we know for sure, the rest is purely conjecture, at this point.
The end of Obama is beginning to unwind into sordid explanation of repulsive sexual relationships connected to the Dunham family and Barry Dunham-Davis, Soetoro, Obama or whatever the heck his name actually was or is. It is a long read, but the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to be laid out. Also, read through the accompanying comments and theories that follow including the poem Barry wrote with its striking sexual overtones. (Who is the Pop in the poem? Grandpa, BHOSr or Frank?) This has got to lead to the October surprise.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/dr-khalid-abdullah-tariq-al-mansour/
“No, that thought NEVER occurred to me and I’m confused as to why you would think that”
only your comment re “surprise of the century to all but Gma Dunham” in #24 above.....sorry for late reply....
Okay, realize most of that post is pasted material , and not my thoughts. But what it does question is whether Davis is the real father and not the Dunham gramps. I guess it’s possible, but not that probable.
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